Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Floodwaters forced more than 25 businesses to close along Penal Rock Road yesterday as intense rainfall triggered extensive flooding.

HOUSTON/WASHINGTON/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – More than two weeks after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro claimed reelection victory, the U.S.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – At least five Haitian children have been killed or injured a week so far in 2024, charity Save the Children said yesterday, urging the United Nations and security forces to do more to protect kids from crossfire and gang violence.

LIMA, (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said yesterday that President Nicolas Maduro had “entrenched himself” with the nation’s top military leaders in order to stay in power after last month’s disputed election.

LIMA, (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said today that President Nicolas Maduro had “entrenched himself” with the nation’s top military leaders in order to stay in power after last month’s disputed election.

HOUSTON/WASHINGTON/BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – More than two weeks after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro claimed reelection victory, the U.S.

-PM promises ‘strong’ response as gunmen kill 8, injure 9 in Four Paths (Jamaica Gleaner) Laughter and excitement morphed into cries of sorrow in Cherry Tree Lane, Four Paths, in Clarendon on Sunday night, when a bingo party turned into unimaginable carnage, after gunmen reportedly unleashed a hail of bullets, killing at least eight people, including a young boy.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexico is now investigating two drug lords arrested in the United States last month for their involvement in a slew of alleged crimes committed in their home country in order to get them stateside, federal authorities said on Sunday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s administration has not made an offer of amnesty to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to shield him from criminal prosecution in the United States in exchange for him giving up power since the South American country’s July 28 election, the White House said today.

(Trinidad Guardian) It took 24 surgeries and 60 hours of operating time for a team of American doctors to remove hundreds of growths from T&T citizen Charmaine Sahadeo’s face, head and body.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two teenagers and a 21-year-old mother of one were killed in a police-involved shooting on the Caroni Savannah Road early yesterday morning.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – An ATR-72 turboprop plane operated by regional carrier Voepass crashed on Friday in a residential area near Sao Paulo, Brazil, killing all 62 passengers aboard.

(Trinidad Guardian) A call has been made for the Student Guild president of the University of the West Indies, Kirby Moses, to step down.

(Trinidad Guardian) A shooting at Paradise Lane in Valencia on Friday night has left one dead and three people, including a 16-year-old student from Valencia Secondary School, injured.

ITAITUBA, Brazil,  (Reuters) – Fifty Munduruku warriors hack their way with machetes through the undergrowth of the Amazon rainforest, marking the borders of their ancestral lands to finish a task that the Brazilian government has not.

VINHEDO, Brazil, (Reuters) – Brazilian emergency crews yesterday recovered the remains of at least 50 victims aboard an airliner that plunged to the ground in the town of Vinhedo, near Sao Paulo the day before, killing all 62 on board.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexican drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was tricked by the son of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and forced to board a plane bound for the United States last month, he said in a statement yesterday.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s supreme court today said that it had not received evidence from the opposition coalition in the disputed July 28 presidential elections and warned that its decision in determining the winner would be final.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A historic convention has been agreed on by United Nations (UN) member states, including Jamaica, to help tackle the global rise in cybercrime.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – A regional turboprop plane fell into what aviation experts called a flat spin before crashing in a residential neighbourhood near Sao Paulo in Brazil yesterday, killing all 61 people on board.